Aged 76, from a heart attack in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles
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Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931) and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.
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entertainment · American actor, director, screenwriter (1878–1954) · film director · composer · musician · screenwriter · stage actor · film actor · actor · television presenter · director · also Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Herbert Blythe, Barrymore
Born 28 April 1878 · Died 15 November 1954 · Q295593
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1954· 2 entries
Died 1954-11-15.
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1951· 1 entry
That it was breaking his hip twice that kept him in the wheelchair
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1948· 1 entry
And later the Chief Justice of the United States
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1947· 1 entry
Released album “Hallowe'en”.
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1944· 1 entry
Attended the massive rally organized by David O
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1942· 1 entry
Composed a work "In Memoriam", which was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra
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1937· 2 entries
Barrymore and Clark Gable mourned her as though she had been family
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Was one of the last times he would be seen standing and walking unassisted
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1936· 1 entry
And replaced by Orson Welles in 1938) on the radio from 1934 through 1953
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1931· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for A Free Soul (1931).
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The arthritis was still so minor that it only made him limp a little as he went on stage to accept the honor
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1926· 3 entries
By which time they had patched up their differences
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And his first picture there was The Barrier
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Signed a film contract with MGM and after the advent of sound films in 1927, he never again appeared on stage
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1925· 1 entry
“s arthritis was caused by syphilis, which they say he contracted in 1925. Eyman, however, explicitly rejects this hypothesis. Whatever the cause, Barrymore”
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1924· 1 entry
Barrymore forged a good relationship with Louis B
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1923· 2 entries
With his second wife, Irene Fenwick; they met while acting together in The Claw the previous year, and after they fell in love he divorced his first wife
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Barrymore and Fenwick went to Italy to film The Eternal City for Metro Pictures in Rome, combining work with their honeymoon
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1921· 1 entry
Opposite veteran actress Julia Arthur as Lady MacBeth, but the production encountered strongly negative criticism
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1920· 2 entries
Barrymore reprised his stage role in the film adaptation of The Copperhead
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Starred in the lead role of The Master Mind, with Gypsy O'Brien co-starring
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1915· 1 entry
Co-starred with Lillian Russell in a movie called Wildfire, one of the legendary Russell's few film appearances
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1910· 1 entry
And continued his stage career with several more plays
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1909· 1 entry
And began to appear in leading roles by 1911 in films directed by D
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1906· 1 entry
After a series of disappointing appearances in plays, Barrymore and his first wife, the actress Doris Rankin, left their stage careers and travelled to Paris, where he trained as an artist
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1905· 1 entry
Appeared with John and Ethel in a pantomime, starring as the title character in Pantaloon and playing another character in the other half of the bill, Alice Sit-by-the-Fire
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1902· 1 entry
In "The Mummy and the Hummingbird", portrait by Burr McIntosh for Munseys Magazine
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-04-28.
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